Improvement in gombineb carpet-stretchers and tack-drivers



Patented. May 23,1876.

V z, .I\:. i bllgxt 7077,11,. MI'arr an J.- M. FARRAR. com-Emm- CARPET-STRE'TCHER AND TACK-DRIVER. 177,704.

N'PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHiNGToN. D. C.

- To all whom t'tmay concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT carton JOHN, M. FARRAR, OFYBOSTQN, MASSACHUSETTS. a

4 IMPROVEME' NFf-IN COM BINEIS CARPET-'STRETCHERLS Ano r jciennivease Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,704, dated May 23, 1876; nimate April 24, 1876. i a

Be it known that I, JOHN M; FARRAR, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and use ful Machine for Stretching and Tacking Oarpets; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a top view; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3," a longitudinal section; and Figs. 4 and 5 are transverse sections, and Fig.6 a front-end view,ot"it. Fig. 7 is a section taken obliquely through its tack-receiving jaws.

In .such drawings, A denotes a furcated stretcher or bar, provided at its larger end with a toothed foot, B, shaped as shown. This toothed 'foot has an opening, a, through its middle, and over such opening it also has a pair of s'ocketed jaws, (J O, which, arranged as shown, are pivoted-to the, foot, and provided with a spring, I), for closing them. There is extended through the slot c of the barA the shank D of a hammer, d, such shank,

' near its lower end, being pivoted to arms E E, extended down from the bar A. A rod,'e, jointed to the shank D, and supported in guides or staples ff, and furnished with a handle, g, and arranged with the bar A in manner as shown, serves to enable a person "to move the hammer back and forth in the sector of a circle. During its advance the hammer-head passes between the tack holders or jaws, and separates them asunder, in

order to expel from them and drive a tack when held between and by them.

Incarrying out my invention I have combined-with such a bar, A, its spurred foot 13, tack receiving and holding jaws, and hammer and its operative mechanism, a tack-feeder,

" ries of notches, z, in its periphery,-they being arranged at equal distances -apart.f, On the arbor of said wheelis' fixed a ratchet-wheel,

it, against whose circumference a retaining-- spring, 0, bears, such spring being projected fromthe bar A. A lever, H, shaped as represented, is arranged on the bar A, and pivoted thereto, the fulcrum or pivot of the lever being shown at 19. From the front arm of the said lever a hook, 1', extends over and hooks cape into and pass through thetube k, and be discharged by it into the mouth of the jaws U 0'. During the next advance of the hammer its head will be thrown against the elastic or spring tube 70, and will move it laterally olf the jaws; By such a movement of such tube the lever H will be moved so as to cause its of the lever H, and will move such lever so as to cause its pawl to slip back on the ratchetwheel. During each advance of the hammer a tack held between the jaws will be expelled by it from. them.

In using the machine its toothed foot is to be borne against a carpet, so as to crowd it up to a position for being nailed to its floor. This having been accomplished, the hammer is to be impelled forward, so as to cause a tack held] by the jaws to be driven from them through the carpet and into thefloor.

I do. not claim the combination of the bar or staff A, its toothed foot B, tack-jaws O O,

and hammer D and its operative rod 6, such a combination bei-ngrepresentedinwthe United 2. Fonfeeding tacks forbeingidrivemas ex- States Patent N0'.- 163,907, datedJun'e 1,1875. plaine'd;the combination of the tube- 70', case h, I claim conduit z, notched wheel G', ratchet-wheel n, 1. The combination of the bar or staff A, retaining-spring o, and the lever H, provided toothed foot B, tack-jaws O O, and hammer with the hook r and the impelling-pawl s, all D and its operative'rod 6 with a feeding appabeiugvsubstantially as explained. ratus, substantially as described, composed'of the case h,' notched feed-wheel G conduiti, JOHN M. FARRAR. curved tubeik lever H, ratchet-wheel n, lll1- pelling-pawl s, and retaining-spring 0, allbe- Witnesses:

ing arranged and applied essentially as and 1 R. H. EDDY,

to operate as explained. J .R. SNOW, 

